1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" from: @(#)split.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 7/29/91 33.\" $Id: split.1,v 1.4 1994/04/01 04:01:48 cgd Exp $ 34.\" 35.Dd July 29, 1991 36.Dt SPLIT 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm split 40.Nd split a file into pieces 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm split 43.Op Fl Ns Ar n 44.Op Fl b Ar bytes 45.Op Ar file Op Ar name 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Nm split 49utility reads the given 50.Ar file 51and splits it up in to 52smaller files. 53.Pp 54Available options: 55.Bl -tag -width "bb bytesx" 56.It Fl Ns Ar lines 57Create files of length 58.Fl Ns Ar n 59lines long. 60.It Fl b Ar bytes 61Create files of length 62.Ar bytes . 63.El 64.Pp 65If no output file length is specified, the file size 66will default to a length of 1000 lines. 67.Pp 68Available operands: 69.Bl -tag -width name 70.It Fl 71Read from the standard input. 72.It Ar file 73A pathname specifying the 74.Ar file 75to be split. If no 76.Ar file 77operand is given, 78.Nm split 79reads from the standard input. 80.It Ar name 81If the 82.Ar name 83operand is given, 84the output files will begin with the prefix 85.Ar name 86and each sequential portion of the split file 87receives a lexically ordered suffix 88in the range of 89.Bq Em aa-zz . 90If the operand 91.Ar name 92is not specified, 93the default prefix of 94.Em x 95is be used. 96.Pp 97.Sh BUGS 98If you provide 99.Ar name , 100.Nm split 101can only create 676 separate 102files. The default naming convention allows 2028 separate files. 103.Sh HISTORY 104A 105.Nm split 106command appeared in 107.At v6 . 108